Christine Olsenius - Executive Director

Christine Olsenius has worked in water resource management for 27 years; 15 years managing nonprofit organizations, and 12 years as a program consultant to nonprofit organizations and federal agencies. She has developed regional stakeholder groups in the Great Lakes, West and Southeast. Mrs. Olsenius has served on national water committees, participated in federal watershed initiatives and developed national water management reports. She assisted in the development of a $30 million water education center, a national Health and Environment Network among Schools of Public Health and State Medical Associations and state health departments, served as the principal consultant to National Geographic Magazine on their 1993 Special Issue on Water and has given hundreds of speeches on water resource management throughout the country.

Mrs. Olsenius helped develop and now serves as Executive Director of the Southeast Watershed Forum, a nonprofit organization dedicated to enhancing local watershed initiatives through education, training and regional dialogue in a nine-state region. The Forum provides a model for partnering across political and jurisdictional boundaries and its efforts have led to state and basin-level watershed roundtables and forums.

E-mail:       co@southeastwaterforum.org
Phone:       410-849-2975
Toll-Free:   866-902-7300
Fax:             410-849-2976
Address:    535 Powell Drive
                    Annapolis, MD 21401